How to use Cell phone “word mode” on an LG VX8300 (LG 8300), which is similar to T9word or ITAP English:

This intro probably isn't worth reading, but this page teaches how to use Cell phone “word mode” on an LG VX8300 (LG 8300), which is similar to T9word or ITAP English on other phones. Most examples will refer to the LG VX8300, with some differences given for Motorola Razr phones, Razor and Crazr phones. The phone is also called LG8300, LG VX-8300, and is similar to LG5300, LG VX5300, LG VX-5300. People often come here to see results for itap English, how to use itap, t9word, how to use itap English, how to use t9word, lg phone how to text using word, text messaging using word mode, how to use t9word on cell phones, how to use word on phones, lg word mode, lg word text, t9word tutorial, text message word mode.

Summary:

You hate “Word mode”, or T9Word or ITAP english

it never picks the right word

you tried it once, then gave up

it was the same for me, until I learned two critical lessons they should have taught you

It should have been called “Guess mode”, because it will guess the letter you want when you press a button

Don’t look at it until it is done

If you give me 10 minutes, I will teach you how to

Have better text

Have more fulfilling text

Have text in about half the time, without the guilt

Details:

Geeks made up Word mode, T9word and ITAP english, and didn’t explain it well

You tried it once and gave up, right?

I’m going to teach it to you, and change your life

Not change everything in your life, but I will change this part

You will text in half the time, and love the word “going”

Put the phone in Word mode, T9word, or ITAP English

On the LG VX8300, this means that as you are entering text into a text message, you must hit the button in the upper left hand corner and change to Word mode

Put in a test word

First, hit the following numbers – 43556 and then #

Wow – the word hello should show up

Now you are going to learn what it just did to get the word hello

Remember the 2 golden rules from above

It will guess the letters of the word if you let it, by magically choosing the letter on each key that you type

You can’t look until it hits the end of the word

Let’s go one step at a time - try it again, and see what happened

Hit the “4” key, which has the letters GHI on it, since you want the H

Don’t look at the word it is making

then hit the “3” key, which has the letters DEF on it, since you want the E

then hit the “5” key, which has the letters JKL on it, since you want the L

then hit the “5” key, which has the letters JKL on it, since you want the L

then hit the “6” key, which has the letters MNO on it, since you want the O

hit the “#” key to create a space

now look at the word hello that you made

Congratulations – you’re most of the way there, and don’t you feel better about yourself?

Now hit the numbers 2937663 and then hit the #

awesome, huh? Yeah, that’s the word that should show up

to see the word awesome again, put in the following

the number 2 to get the A from ABC

the number 9 to get the W from WXYZ

the number 3 to get the E from DEF

the number 7 to get the S from PQRS

the number 6 to get the O from MNO

the number 6 to get the M from MNO

the number 3 to get the E from DEF

Now you should begin to become confident that it will pick the right word

What if it doesn’t pick the right word?

We’ll do 2 examples

Put in the word good, i.e. 4663

you should see good

Now put in the word home

It's also 4663, which is the same as good

You need to tell the phone to pick the next possible word

That’s why the 0 key on the LG VX8300 says next on it

Hit the 0 key as many times as it takes to get the right word, and then hit a space

Motorola Razr users have to hit a right arrow key to do this

Crazr users hit a right arrow

Some use the up arrow

Other phones use some slightly different key, but the idea is the same

If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve learned the first two possibilities

It picks the right word

It picks the wrong word, and you hit next until its gets the right word

Now, what if it still didn’t get the right word

you must want a word that isn’t in its dictionary, so you have to teach it the word

This is a pain in the ass, but only has to be done once

Switch back to Abc mode by hitting the button in the upper left corner, and picking Abc mode

From Abc mode, put in the word as you always did in Abc mode

Hit # at the end to put in a space

Switch back to Word mode
(or T9Word or ITAP English)

Word mode will now remember the word the next time you do it

Your new, improved life

Try putting in the phrase this is going to change my life

Very cool - it shoudl work right away

You will text much more quickly

The word hello now takes 5 strokes instead of 13

Try the word going – its awesome

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Bonus stuff:

Weird trivia

Try the word tongue, and look at it while its being created

It becomes vomit before it becomes tongue, i.e. if you just do the first 5 keystrokes, it says vomit, then magically says tongue when you the final 3 key

Nerds is mere before it turns into nerds

(if the mere nerds made it easier, you wouldn't be here)

If you try to put in the word phone, it will say sin after 3 keystrokes

This must be an admission that it is a sin the way they made this phone